Heron (Ruth Meisner)

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Ruth Meisner 1950 neugegossene group herons for the National Garden Show 1951 in the city park of Hanover

The heron group in Hanover is a listed sculpture by the sculptor and ceramicist Ruth Meisner . Today's location of the shown herons is the city park in the district Zoo .

history

Ruth Meisner, who had only moved to Hanover in 1932, created the sculpture for the Maschsee spring near the lido , which was inaugurated there on the south-west bank in November 1935 after the construction of the Maschsee . The sculpture group was not melted down by the National Socialists for war purposes during the Second World War , unlike the figure of Oskar Winter at the Holzmarktbrunnen . Instead, it was stolen in 1950.

After the theft, the group of figures was re- cast and set up in the city park of Hanover for the 1951 Federal Garden Show . The first location was the elongated water basin built in 1913/14, at that time still in the axis of the town hall , in which instead of the light fountain the herons were now temporarily placed on a stone plinth overflowing with water. When for the 50th anniversary of the town hall, a smaller pool with 14 fountains and 36 nozzles each ensured the revitalization of the basin, which was no longer in the axis of the town hall, the herons were moved to the nearby bushes.

literature

  • Karl Fischoeder: A heron group in the Maschsee in Hanover by Ruth Meisner. In: The Art for Everyone: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Architecture , Issue 52, Munich: Bruckmann, born 1936–1937, p. 114, online about Heidelberg historical holdings - digitally from Heidelberg University Library , last accessed on February 18, 2014

Web links

Commons : Fischreiher (Ruth Meisner)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: City Hall. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 155f., as well as zoo enclosure . In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), as of July 1, 1985. City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p.
  2. ^ A b Annekathrin Schmidt, James Schmidt (partner): Ruth Meisner , offers from auction 16 on the page schmidt-auktionen.de , last accessed on February 27, 2013
  3. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Maschseequelle. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 432.
  4. ^ A b c Rainer Ertel, Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Maschseequelle. In: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , pp. 21, 102
  5. ^ Rainer Ertel, Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch ... , p. 12, 87

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '26.7 "  N , 9 ° 46' 14.3"  E